Tampa Bay's Ryan Malone arrested for DUI, cocaine

Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ryan Malone was charged Saturday with DUI and possession of cocaine after a traffic stop, police said.

Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ryan Malone was charged Saturday with DUI and possession of cocaine after a traffic stop, police said.

An officer saw Malone's SUV strike a curb after making a left turn from the center lane early Saturday, said Tampa Police Lt. Paul Lusczynski. After being pulled over, Malone got out of his vehicle, and the officer smelled alcohol on his breath, Lusczynski said. According to the police report, the officer also found 1.3 grams of cocaine in one of Malone's pockets. Malone refused to take field sobriety tests, but a breath test given at the jail recorded blood alcohol levels of 0.112 and 0.116 percent, Lusczynski said. Florida law considers a driver impaired at 0.08. Malone was released from the Hillsborough County jail on $2,500 bond. Jail records didn't show whether he had an attorney. Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said Malone would not travel with the team for Tampa Bay's final regular-season game today against the Washington Capitals.

SOCCER

MLS' Garber has cancer

Major League Soccer said that commissioner Don Garber is being treated for prostate cancer, and doctors expect he will make a full recovery The 56-year-old Garber has undergone a series of comprehensive tests, and the cancer hasn't spread, MLS said Saturday. Garber will undergo surgery following treatment. ''Obviously no one wants to hear that they have cancer,'' Garber said in a statement. ''However, I am being treated by exceptional doctors at two of the top hospitals in the world and am confident, as are they, that the prostate cancer will be successfully treated, with a full recovery.''

AUTO RACING

Andretti Autosport up front

Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe made it an all-Andretti Autosport front row for the 40th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in California. Hunter-Reay snatched the pole from his teammate with a late qualifying lap Saturday at 1 minute, 7.8219 seconds on the temporary course through the streets of downtown. Hinchcliffe wound up second after his lap at 1 minute, 7.9403 seconds. Sebastien Bourdais was third, followed by Josef Newgarden, rookie Jack Hawksworth and Simon Pagenaud.

TENNIS

All-Spanish final is set

Nicolas Almagro and Fernando Verdasco set up an all-Spanish final in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston. The fourth-seeded Verdasco beat Colombia's Santiago Giraldo, 6-4, 7-5, and the third-seeded Almagro advanced when American Sam Querrey pulled out because of a back injury. Almagro, a 12-time winner on the ATP World Tour ranked 20th in the world, reached the final for the second straight. He lost the 2013 final to John Isner. Verdasco has five career titles, all on clay. Querrey beat Dustin Brown on Friday night and appeared to be fine, but woke up with lower-back spasms. ''It didn't affect me at all my match,'' Querrey said. ''But I woke up unable to bend forward or arch (my) back. We've been trying to loosen it up for three hours. I feel terrible . . . my first semi in a while and I really wanted to play. But (Almagro) was going to beat me (6-0, 6-0).''

Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was overcome by Alize Cornet of France, 0-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the Katowice Open semifinals in Poland. Cornet will face first-time WTA finalist Camila Giorgi of Italy. Radwanska didn't concede a set to Cornet in three previous matches, including at Indian Wells last month, and the hometown favorite won the first set quickly. Cornet levelled, but Radwanska had a point for 4-0 in the third when she began to unravel. Cornet won six of the last seven games for only her second career win over a top-three player. She will play for her fourth career title against Giorgi, who beat third-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, 7-6 (2), 6-4. Giorgi, who hadn't reached a WTA quarterfinals until this week, beat two top-20 players in the same tournament for the second time.

Fourth-seeded Marcel Granollers will face eighth-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in an all-Spanish final at the Grand Prix Hassan II after both won their semifinals in Casablanca, Morocco. Granollers had an easier time, beating No. 6 Federico Delbonis of Argentina, 6-1, 6-4, and Garcia-Lopez followed up by taking nearly three hours to get the better of countryman Roberto Carballes Baena, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-4.

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